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Tuesday's highlights: Burlington seizes soccer rematch with CVU

The Burlington High School football team improved to 6-0 following a tense, 42-33 victory over Mount Mansfield on Saturday. The Seahorses led 36-13 to start the fourth quarter before holding off the Cougars' comeback bid.

The Rice girls volleyball team celebrates a point during its match with Essex on Tuesday.(Photo: ANDY POHLEN/courtesy of the Free Press)

• Eve-Audrey Picard, Vermont: Catamounts forward set a single-game program record with four goals in her team's 7-0 win over Union.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE...

• Rice girls volleyball: The Green Knights seized a dramatic five-set victory (20-25, 25-16, 17-25, 25-11, 15-12) over Essex in South Burlington on Tuesday. The showdown of the state's last unbeaten squads was also a rematch of last year's semifinals, which the Hornets won in three sets.

• No time like now: Spaulding and Rice each earned its first boys soccer victory of the season, with the Crimson Tide topping Missisquoi and the Green Knights repelling an onslaught by Essex on Tuesday.

NUMBER TO KNOW...

• 10: Tuesday's triumph over Champlain Valley pushed the Burlington boys soccer team's record to 10-1, the first in Division I to reach the double-digit win barrier.

The ACTION...

Boys soccer

• Burlington 2, Champlain Valley 1: Bienfait Badibanga knocked home the tying and go-ahead goals and Burlington edged visiting Champlain Valley to earn a regular-season split with one of its Metro rivals.

After pressure sprung CVU's Briggs Francis loose for the opening strike with 12:51 left in the first half, Badibanga leveled the score in the 39th minute, heading in Rida Kori's flick from the end line after a failed corner kick clearance.

About 11 minutes into the second half, Badibanga touched on fullback Henry Sheeser's long, bouncing pass underneath the CVU goalie, stayed upright through the contact and then tapped into an open-net for the decisive tally.

Niels Arentzen posted three saves for the Seahorses (10-1). Isaac Cleveland made four stops for the Redhawks (8-2).

Girls soccer

Lauren Bellavance put Cabot ahead in the sixth minute. Kaw Ra Ban Bi found the equalizer on a Wilondje cross less than five minutes later.

After the break, Winooski (5-6) scored in the 51st, 54th and 65 minutes (Khadija Hussein, Lai Lar Bi and Wilondje).

Amna Cicak returned to the net for the Spartans recording three saves. Evelyn Hislop saved 11 for Cabot.

• Rivendell 3, Woodstock 1: Mikayla DeBois scored in a five-minute span early in the second half and then assisted on the insurance tally as Rivendell rallied past Woodstock.

Olivia Marsicovetere gave Woodstock a 1-0 lead in the 45th minute before DeBois knocked in a pair of tallies in the 49th and 55th minutes. DeBois then set up Mikayla Stever’s strike with 14 minutes to play for 11-1 Rivendell.

Field hockey

• Spaulding 4, St. Johnsbury 0: Anna Clark-Blouin scored the first three goals and Spaulding blanked host St. Johnnsbury.

Ali Ahearn also tallied and had an assist and Morgan Mast set up Clark-Blouin on two occasions for the Crimson Tide.

Melanie Coons stopped 16 shots for the Hilltoppers. Spaulding's Calista Hanna did not record a save in the clean-sheet effort.

College women's hockey

• Vermont 7, Union 0: Eve-Audrey Picard set a single-game UVM record with four goals – earning her first career hat trick in the process – as the Catamounts routed visiting Union at Gutterson Fieldhouse.

The victory was Vermont’s 21st in a row against the Dutchwomen.

Alyssa Gorecki added a goal and two assists for the Catamounts (2-1), while Ali O’Leary and Kristina Shanahan also scored.

"Eve showed why she is such a special player tonight," said UVM coach Jim Plumer. "She scored all four of her goals in different ways and it's a credit to her compete level, skill, and hockey sense that she can really impact the game in all three zones.”

Melissa Black worked a 10-save shutout for UVM, which got two assists each from Saana Valkama and Mackenzie MacNeil.